Sorry 'bout that

Hi guys. Long time no post. Sorry about that.

Life has been busy! In the midst of finishing school, my internship and my assistantship, I was offered a temporary position at a company that does Background Checks on people, mostly for employment purposes. It was brought on by a going away party for my old boss Sally. Andrea and I were offered the job as long as we could start the following morning, which we took.

The project was only supposed to be a couple weeks, but last Friday my boss decided to keep me on another week to help wrap everything up. Now he's keeping me on an extra few weeks to help some more. Now there's a potential that this may turn into a real job. It's been a crazy couple of days, really.

I like the idea of having income. I like the idea of not having to job search for another year with no avail. I like the idea that this all came about because I went to a going away party.

However, I've been toying with the idea of going back to school. I like school. I like studying, learning, and being around the college atmosphere. Maybe I'll become a professor? What's another few years of school when I like it? Either way, I'm going to give myself a year or so to think about it. I want to take some time for learning without having to pay for tuition.

Speaking of school. I'm done. And I'm a little sad about it. Not so much about not having to go to UDM anymore, and not so much about not having to work for Kathleen, but sooo much about not being forced to see my classmates anymore. I know we'll see each other anyway, but it's much harder to keep in touch when you really have to try.

I'll try to update more for those who actually read this!

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Busy Busy

I forgot what being busy felt like! It's a little exhausting and makes time go by way to fast. But it's nice at the same time.

For those that don't know, I got offered a temp job at a company that does background checks and drug testing for employment purposes. It's pretty much exactly what I was doing last summer at RECON. Never did I ever think my background investigation experience was going to land me a job, but it did. And it pays pretty well, so it's very nice.

I'm hoping it will maybe turn in to a summer job! We'll see!

So now, for the next two weeks, I have to:

• Finish my finals, including my ever so daunting comprehensive exam that proves I've learned something over the past two years.
• Finish my internship.
  
• Finish my assistantship.
• Finish my classes and final presentations.
• Work for this company for as many hours as I possibly can!

After April 21st though, I'm going to have nothing besides my new job. Life is going to be so easy!

Except I'm sure my assistantship duties will continue all the way up to graduation because that's exactly how Kathleen rolls.

24

My birthday weekend is over. I knew that once it was it meant that I was destined to spend the following two weeks locked in my room finishing up school work, finishing up my internship, finishing up my assistantship, and finishing up my life as a student.

Actually, since the economy has knocked me off my feet and ruined my moral, I'm almost tempted to go back for my doctorate. So maybe I will be a student again some day? It sounds better than not having a job.

My birthday weekend was GREAT! Actually I should probably call it my birthday week since I partied from Thursday all the way to Tuesday morning.

During my birthday week I:

• Received many birthday wishes that left me feeling super special and lucky.
• Was surprised with the best birthday ice cream cake ever from Laura.
  
• Had a movie night with Dan and Melissa, drinking wine and eating the ice cream cake.
• Went rollerblading with Tonka because the weather was so nice.
• Had my first grill out of the season, and made about 10lbs of mashed potatoes to go with it.
• Drank my first Oberon of the season. Grilling and Oberon? I like this season a lot.
  
• Got slapped in the face with reality. A couple of times. Naivety can only last so long.
  
• Played Apples to Apples, Battle of the Sexes and Cranium with some of my favorites.
• Went to this really cool bar in underground Royal Oak that Brian knew about, where apparently the men dancing around us were "together" and we didn't even notice it. Well, at least I didn't notice it.
  
• Got sucked into watching Little Big League on ABCFamily and left for Paw Paw a few hours late.
• Had a bonfire in Paw Paw with most of my favorite Paw Paw people! Thanks so much to all those who came back from Chicago to celebrate with me!
• Reconciled with Dave after over two years of us both being stupid and petty.
• Started putting words into practice by trying to get over myself in a lot of other situations that I may be being petty in. I'm lucky I have friendship and I shouldn't think that I'm entitled to people's attention. As a friend I should learn to be open minded and graciously accept things that I cannot, and probably should not, change.
  
• Got my groove back.
• Spent the night at my house with Katie who was a funny mess and I loved it.
• Had an awesome breakfast at Ryan's.
• Cleaned up the beer cans and toilet paper left on the field from the night before.
• Drove home and did nothing productive. Actually, I did nothing productive alllll weekend.
• Worked with Kim on Monday but left an hour early like usual.
• Took Katie's demo to Brian so he could listen to the songs we would like him to try out on drums.
• Hopped on board a fun bus and went to Harsens Island with Melissa, Raimie and Andy to watch the Final Four and hang out with their friends.
• Picked up someone from jail in New Baltimore.
• Was sad MSU lost because now I have to drive to North Carolina and buy my friend Brandon a pint. And because I hate losing bets.
  
• Got pretty hammered and stayed up too late; only slept 3 hours but it was well worth it in fun-ness.
• Spent the night at a house over looking the Saint Clair River channel watching ginormous freighters drive by.
• Was in a strange no sleep world for most of Tuesday, hardly able to survive class.

And now it's Wednesday and I'm writing this blog and listening to Bon Iver instead of doing my work. I'm such a mess.

So far 24 has been a really fun age. I hope it continues this way!